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Congratulations Sir, it's always a pleasure to see good works rewarded. As to the question about an audiobook yes please.I first heard some of these "campfire stories" on the old long defunct VC podcast. ( something about hippies in a diner!) Your delivery certainly enhanced the effect. Enjoyed the book very much, can't wait for the Africa follow up. Zapper lizards anyone?

I just told my wife that we may be getting The Lawdog Files in audiobook. I remarked that it would be perfect for one of our frequent road trips from Dallas to Burnet. We both decided that this would be a bad thing. Because our car would like go off the road because we were laughing so hard.

Woot! Congrats LawDog! Yes to an audio book. Also, I might send a deadtree copy to the Kansas Audio Reader group to have it read over the air for their subscribers (vision impaired listeners). I am sure your book would go over well with their audience. LB's TBOB was well received there.

Hell, yes, do an audio book. But make sure YOU do the audio, dear sir -- or your brother or Lawdog Mom. Please, please, please do NOT get someone not of your background and unique way of writing/speaking, for they will snuff it badly.

I am delighted that your book is doing so well. The tales you tell have such a overfill "voice' that i hoped they would reach a large audience. I am looking forward to your Africa storied. More, I would dearly like to read an expanded account of what those parts of Africa you saw were like during your childhood there, if you would care to go into it. Most writing on Post-Colonial Africa is heavily slanted by the writers' political biases, and flat out "This is what it really was, deal with it" books are damned rare. I've run into a few - ELEPHANT HAVE RIGHT OF WAY springs to mind - but more is needed.

Your 'voice' reminds me of two authors I hope you've encountered; Fred Reed (author of THE GREAT POSSUM-SQUASHING AND BEER STORM OF 1962 and other light classics) and Peter Bowen (of the Gabriel du Pre mysteries and the Yellowstone Kelly books).

There are of course fans-of-Correia who were fans-of-you in the days BC. I waited for the bookbomb, some others reported that they couldn't wait that long.

You, sir, have caused me untold grief. My kindle didn't want to download your book once I had purchased it. Turns out I needed to upgrade my kindle OS. Except that since I had years ago jailbroken it, the upgrade failed. Much dicking about and I now have an upgraded kindle, again jailbroken, not yet SSH-ing via WiFi, and still busy downloading said book.

I've been reading your blog for years now. Have introduced my children to some of your stories....to help them laugh during tough times, or to gain perspective. I think you would be amazed how your "little scribblings" have impacted lives.

I'll ask the same question as Skip.....when the dead tree version of your book comes out, will I be able to get autographed copies? I will pay extra if needed. I will be buying at least 9 copies - one for me and each of my children. I know that digital is the way of the world now.....but there's just something about holding that book in your hands.

Add my vote for you narrating the audiobook yourself. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and generally prefer the writer to narrate when possible. I've heard you on a couple of different podcasts. You have the voice to do it well.

Having heard about "Bob, the not-Russian" live, I suspect that the consensus is that audio is a good idea, and author narration is a Very Good Idea Indeed. That said, I am not jumping on the bandwagon - yet. I'll wait for print, to make some lending easier. If I hand a book to $HOUSEMATE, it gets read. If I say it's on my Kindle... well, it rests there.

As an Amazon Prime subscriber, I read the Kindle version for free. I will be buying a dead paper copy (well, three, actually. Two as gifts.) the day they are available. Any chance on getting one autographed?

Not to mention that the pre-orders for book two, that won't be released until August, is already on amazons "BEST SELLER" list, along side The LawDog Files. You do realize, you're gonna need a bigger hat?

Audio? Sure. Dad's eyes ain't getting any better, and my cousin (also in law enforcement- him and his wife both) tends to listen on the way to work. Keep us posted, we'll be around when y'all are ready.

Your book was the best humor I've read in years. I did fall off by chair once, with the six-foot chickens, because I read about those monsters at work on someone at a local farm, just like that. Then I got to the Pink Gorilla Suit, and couldn't read because I laughed so hard ... and fell off the chair again. GREAT therapy, and loads cheaper that a PhD (pointy-headed dipstick) telling me it's my fault. I have one of those really serious jobs and need something light with a good laugh.

I'm glad that there wasn't an entry where you tutored the Things in the proper way to play cricket, using a 'dillo for the ball and a set of rigid foam bats. Oh wait, there better NOT be that story!

Thanks to NFO and Peter, among others, for nudging, Larry for the "Hey y'all, buy this!" and to CH for publishing.